All Australian students will be entitled to learn a language other than English under the new Australian curriculum, with tuition in Chinese Mandarin and Italian among the first curriculum to be ...

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Last week I wrote about how Australia’s lack of economic complexity is leading the country toward a possibly perilous financial position. Two of its largest industries — coal and gas — have limited ...

Thanks to the rise of language learning apps, such as Duolingo, the number of people learning a second – or third – language ...

It may be a massive leap for Australia to jump beyond its current linguistic lassitude, but the increasingly difficult strategic terrain requires Canberra to think big and be bold. As a middle power ...

Laura Rademaker received funding from the Northern Territory History Grants Scheme, Australian Research Theology Foundation and Cushwa Centre. Linguistically speaking, Australia is special. With ...

Tiwi, an Australian language isolate, is spoken on the Tiwi Islands which are near the Northern Territory of Australia, according to Omniglot. Some of Tiwi’s different names are Diwi, Wongak, and ...

In the early 20th century linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf thrilled his contemporaries by noting that the Hopi language, spoken by Native American people in what is now Arizona, had no words or grammatical ...

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